heart blood vessel

A blood vessel that is part of a heart [Automatically generated definition]. Every claim on this page comes from the Leumas anatomy graph and carries its source.

What the heart blood vessel is

A blood vessel that is part of a heart [Automatically generated definition]. The atlas records it as a organ at the organ scale in the human body.

Where the heart blood vessel is

It sits in the thorax and trunk, within the cardiovascular system. Not positioned individually. Drawn inside the structure this dataset says contains it — the containment is asserted, the exact spot within it is not.

What the heart blood vessel connects to

The atlas records 17 typed relationships for it, across 3 kinds of connection. part of heart, heart vasculature and thoracic segment of trunk, and 1 more.

Supply and innervation

This dataset asserts no arterial supply, venous drainage or innervation for the heart blood vessel. Only a minority of structures carry those edges here, so an empty answer means nothing has been recorded — not that there is nothing to record.

Also called

Also recorded as blood vessel of heart and cardiac blood vessel. Searching any of those names reaches this page.

Source

Uberon multi-species anatomy ontology (Mungall et al.), CC BY 4.0. Term UBERON:0003498, version 2026-06-19, retrieved 2026-08-24. Licence: CC-BY-4.0.

Part of: heart, heart vasculature, thoracic segment of trunk and trunk.
A kind of: blood vessel and vessel.
subtype: aortic sac, atrioventricular nodal artery, cardiac vein, circumflex branch of left coronary artery, coronary artery and coronary capillary, and 5 more.

Questions

Where is the heart blood vessel?

What does the heart blood vessel connect to?

Part of: heart, heart vasculature, thoracic segment of trunk and trunk.

Is the heart blood vessel the same in other species?

Leumas holds the same relationship vocabulary for every species it carries, so where another dataset records this structure you can put the two side by side on /compare.